Twelve Years a Slave
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An Apple Books Classic edition.
In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free, educated Black man living in Saratoga Springs, New York—until the day that two men kidnapped him and sold him into slavery in Louisiana. This is Northup’s account of those years, when he learned about “the measure of ‘man’s inhumanity to man.’” Northup endured unconscionable mental and physical abuse, but he never lost hope that his family would rescue him…if he could just find a way to contact them.
Twelve Years a Slave was published as abolitionists throughout the U.S. were campaigning to end slavery, and it has stood the test of time as a blistering indictment of slavery. In 2013, Northup’s story was adapted into an award-winning movie. Northup’s story remains important—and the question he addresses to us readers continues to resonate: “What difference is there in the color of the soul?”
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12 Años de Esclavitud es un relato inquietante de la perdida de la libertad y con ella la de nuestra identidad. Salomón es obligado a ser otra persona en función de sobrevivir en condiciones inhumanas, a lo largo de doce años esconde su identidad pero es cuando esta sale a flote que sobrevive a los abusos que es sometido. Es triste, que en la actualidad aún encontremos estas situaciones con la lamentable trata de personas alrededor del mundo.
Este libro ilustra la crueldad humana que se genera por la codicia y la fuerza del espíritu que se debe tener en situaciones oscuras.